Our proposal with Hank Willis Thomas, The Embrace, was selected as the winner of the King Boston competition.

We are so excited to have been selected with Hank Willis Thomas to bring a new memorial to the Boston Common honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Thank you to King Boston and everyone else involved in making this project happen.

The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund breaks ground

On February 12, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund will host a groundbreaking for the organization’s new permanent home in Rwanda. The mission of the campus is to make gorillas an entry point for a lifetime of conservation activism.

The University of Global Health Equity celebrates its inauguration on January 25, 2019.

UGHE seeks to advance the science of healthcare delivery and expand the traditional paradigm of health science education, with an innovative curriculum and campus design. The opening marks 10 years of partnership in the Burera District between MASS, Partners In Health, and the Rwanda Ministry of Health.

We need memorials that embrace truth.

The Equal Justice Initiative created a national lynching memorial as a sacred space for truth-telling and reflection about racial terror in America and its legacy.

“I believe we need to talk about the shame of slavery. We need to talk about the shadows that still haunt us.”
 —Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of EJI 

Read more about the project.

October 12, 2018 marks the opening day of the new Ruhehe Primary School.

Through the partnership between MASS, MSquared Foundation and the District of Musanze, Ruhehe Primary School provided the African Design Centre fellows the opportunity to test the first replication of the Mubuga model for education design in the district.

The National Design Awards were conceived by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum to honor lasting achievement in American design. 

Read a statement from the MASS team.